"Piers Gill is an extremely dangerous environment where we have sadly experienced many fatalities over the decades," the spokesman said.

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Social distancing was maintained throughout the rescue

"Through making poor judgements on the weather forecast, the equipment they failed to bring and also the reliance on navigating by phone apps, the gentleman and his teenage son found themselves in a knife edge situation that could have very easily gone either way putting themselves and team members at risk."